| Name | CVE-2014-3248 |
| Description | Untrusted search path vulnerability in Puppet Enterprise 2.8 before 2.8.7, Puppet before 2.7.26 and 3.x before 3.6.2, Facter 1.6.x and 2.x before 2.0.2, Hiera before 1.3.4, and Mcollective before 2.5.2, when running with Ruby 1.9.1 or earlier, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse file in the current working directory, as demonstrated using (1) rubygems/defaults/operating_system.rb, (2) Win32API.rb, (3) Win32API.so, (4) safe_yaml.rb, (5) safe_yaml/deep.rb, or (6) safe_yaml/deep.so; or (7) operatingsystem.rb, (8) operatingsystem.so, (9) osfamily.rb, or (10) osfamily.so in puppet/confine. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| facter (PTS) | bullseye | 3.14.12-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.3.0-2 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 4.10.0-1 | fixed | |
| hiera (PTS) | bullseye | 3.2.0-2.1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.10.0-1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 3.12.0-1 | fixed | |
| mcollective (PTS) | bullseye | 2.12.5+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.12.5+dfsg-1.1 | fixed | |
| puppet (PTS) | bullseye | 5.5.22-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| facter | source | (unstable) | 2.0.1-1 | low | ||
| hiera | source | (unstable) | 1.3.4-1 | low | ||
| mcollective | source | (unstable) | 2.5.2+dfsg-1 | low | ||
| puppet | source | (unstable) | 3.7.0-1 | low | ||
| ruby-hiera | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | low |
[wheezy] - puppet <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - puppet <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - ruby-hiera <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - facter <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - facter <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - mcollective <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://puppetlabs.com/security/cve/cve-2014-3248
problem in combination with ruby <= 1.9.1